The withdrawal period for tetracycline is listed as 5 days and I heard you shouldn't give it to laying birds...

There will be some residue from the meds in their eggs during this period, so don't feed it back to them and don't incubate them. I'm not going to suggest you eat them yourself, because, like I said, there will be residue in the eggs. It's up to you, but personally I'd toss them. Sorry this had to happen now after you waited so long for those eggs!

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I haven't tried it myself, but I know of people who incubated the eggs after giving their chickens medicine/deworming them with disastrous results. They hatched severely handicapped chicks and most of the chicks died very soon after hatching.

If you feed the eggs back to the hens you prolong their exposure to the medicine (and the withdrawal) and if you eat it, you get some of the medicine too, so the best is to discard them, unfortunately.

“Listen to the mustn'ts, child. Listen to the don'ts. Listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the won'ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me... Anything can happen, child. Anything can be.”

“Listen to the mustn'ts, child. Listen to the don'ts. Listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the won'ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me... Anything can happen, child. Anything can be.”